Nadija Quotes & Sayings

I got to a state where phrases like "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" filled me with a kind of suppressed indignation, because they stood for the big sin of Platonism: the reduction of all reality to the level of pure abstraction, as if concrete, individual substances had no essential reality of their own, but were only shadows of some remote, universal, ideal essence filed away in a big card-index somewhere in heaven, while the demi-urges milled around the Logos piping their excitement in high, fluted, English intellectual tones. — Thomas Merton

It was the softest bed she had ever lain in. But then, it was the only bed she had ever lain in. — Colson Whitehead

To add value to your life, serve others with love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. — William Osler

Alex's T-shirt is red, and for a second I think it's a trick of the light, but then I realise he's drenched, soaked in blood: blood seeping across his chest, like the stain seeping up the sky, bringing another day to the world. Behind him is that insect army of men, all running toward him at once, guns drawn. The guards are coming too, reaching for him from both sides ... The helicopter has him fixed in it's spotlight. He is standing white and still and frozen in its beam, and I don't think I have ever, in my life, seen anything more beautiful than him. — Lauren Oliver

There was once a strange small man but there was a word shaker too. — Markus Zusak

I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.' — Edgar Wright

While he slept the world spun on, changed, situations altered and grew more complex, left him more inadequate to deal with them. — William Gay

I'm a struggling guitar player. — Megyn Kelly

I'm not psychic myself. — Dionne Warwick

Maybe kids are like parents - we don't pick them, you know? We just gotta work with what we've got. — Jenny B. Jones

I do like the iPhone. I've been a Blackberry person from, like, literally day one of Blackberry, so it's been a real switch, but it's a great device. — Julius Genachowski

The bloodline of heroes - like the source of a mighty river - is never known. — Kavita Kane

A shilling life will give you all the facts. — W. H. Auden

I was raised to fight to the end. You never give up, no matter how much it hurts, no matter what stands in your way. — Jonathan Maberry